Acting Quote by Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

— Archibald MacLeish

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

— A. L. Rowse

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

— Amanda Gorman

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

— Aristotle

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

— Eliza Griswold

It’s history. It’s poetry.

— Anonymous

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research…

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

— Aristotle

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the…

— Germaine Greer

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of…

— Annie Dillard

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

— Madame de Stael